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and the best part: he doesn't make any mention of identifying characteristics of the "100% authentic" pieces he was selling. He's just given every banksy rip-off a huge boost in credibility, and destroyed the resale market for his own work.



Authenticating the provenance of Banksy stuff has always been a tough ask. The only way to definitively verify if streetart is genuine is to wait for it appear on his website, but for prints/canvases etc. he runs his own verification service [0].

[0] http://www.pestcontroloffice.com/


Everyone who bought a piece is featured in that video. If you're going to buy one of these, you should probably make sure it's from one of those people.


Unless they sold it to somebody else. And they even avoid showing which pieces were bought, for the most part.




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